'This was supposed to be our forever home': 2 Utah houses slide down a cliff months after residents were forced to evacuate
Draper, Utah, officials required two households overlooking a canyon to evacuate in October, KSTU reports.
Residents watched their homes slide off the cliff and into the canyon below on Saturday morning.
Eric Kamradt wrote that he and his wife were still paying the mortgage of the $900K home while they stayed in a rental awaiting repairs.
A Utah couple watched their forever home slide off its foundation into a canyon during a collapse they were warned about months prior.
On Saturday, Draper's Eric Kamradt and his wife saw their home and another uninhabited house slip into the canyon the structures once overlooked. According to KSTU, multiple residents in their neighborhood evacuated the surrounding homes at the urging of city officials.
Kamradt documented the destruction of the $900,000 home he'd purchased with his wife in November 2021 and shared the clip to LinkedIn.
"Everyone has problems. Here is ours, as this was supposed to be our forever home," the somber caption read.
The couple was required to leave their would-be forever home in October 2022 when the city revoked its occupancy permit and the permit of a neighboring home that housed a family of seven, per a report from the outlet in December of that year.
In the report, Kamradt pointed out that visible cracks in the home's foundation began to show as the area closest to the canyon began to sink in December. At the time, the couple lived in a rental while the structural issues were to be sorted out.
Draper's government officials took to the city's Facebook account Saturday to issue a statement on the matter and close trails near the Hidden Canyon Estates subdivision where the homes were located. The town is situated about 19 miles outside of Salt Lake City.
"Draper City has been following up with the developer, Edge Homes for months on engineering studies Edge Homes has conducted regarding the stability of the surrounding area," the statement read.
It continued: "With the snow pack melting and creating changes in conditions, other homes in the neighborhood will be evaluated for safety concerns. At this time, only the two adjacent homes are being evacuated."
City officials ended their statement by assuring that "everyone is safe" following the incident.
Kamradt and Edge Homes did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Kamradt shared more about his experience with Edge Homes in the comment section of his LinkedIn post.
"Edge Homes is playing hardball. We are paying for both the mortgage and a rental. they want us to make concessions before they pay for the rental," Kamradt wrote to another user Sunday morning.
In the December report from KSTU, Kamradt told reporters that Edge Homes offered the options of selling the home back to the agency or "move someplace else while they fix the house."
A spokesperson for the company told the station the shifts in the homes were due to "unique geographic features and the soils on which they were constructed."
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